Just a short episode this week, as we are without Rosscott. Instead we have Alex Heberling, Michael Dellheim, and Fes Works running this week’s episode. Thanks to Eric Kimball, our newshound for collecting articles. Not all articles may have been gone over in detail, but they are all listed for you.

A reminder that The Webcomic Beacon is wanting to have a call-in show soon, where they want your webcomic stories of going on hiatus, and what you did to come back from it. You can email us, or leave a voicemail at 1+320-310-0922; or of course stay tuned for the coming episode.

Amanda Lafrenais (Love Me Nice) & Lin Visel (aka ButtOvens) (Effort Comics) are here to join Fes and Alex Heberling in this week’s episode. We also had a record number of live listeners while we recorded! Anyway, since both Amanda and Lin have comics with toon/human worlds, AND they both make porn comics for Slipshine; this episode just wrote itself!

MY LITTLE PONIES! The long-awaited (not really) My Little Pony Tropecast promised. Joining us especially for this episode is Yamino (Sister Claire); along with Adam Smithee, Alex Heberling (who also did the cover art), and Fes Works. What do we talk about? Several aspects of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. A continuation of the Guilty Pleasures episode, but with loads more discussion, information, and analysis.

Thanks to Equestria Daily for linking our Guily Pleasure episode. I hope they, and readers from there, will enjoy this episode as well! We also promise to get back to our usual programming after these last couple excuses to talk about ponies.

This is a test of the Webcast Beacon Network Podcast, which is mainly designed to offer a podcast version of the text news occasionally posted on this website…. and possibly for something else in the future. If you nab the master feed, you will catch this as well.

It’s that time of year again. Jenny Everywhere Day 2011 is coming up fast (faster than I’d like at least 🙂 ).

I’ve talked to a couple of you already about this years event, but I wanted to do one email to everyone that’s participated in some fashion in the past in the hopes that most of you would be able to submit something again this year.

The event is August 13th, which is a Saturday this year. That’s just over 3 weeks away. Hopefully that’s not too soon for you guys.

I’m doing things a bit differently this year. For the first two years, I contacted people whose work I like from deviantart.com as well as a number of webcomic people.

Last year I sent out 300+ emails and got 11 submissions. Not terrible numbers, considering, but not great considering the amount of time I put into collecting all those addresses.

So this time around I’m skipping the deviantart stuff and sticking with people that have either worked with Jenny in the past or have expressed interest before.

If possible, please spread the word as much as humanly possible. The world of comics is a tight community and I’m sure that all of you have artist friends, please let them know about Jenny and about the event.

This is the tenth anniversary of the Jenny’s creation and I’d really like to have a large number of submissions to really show off what’s possible with the character. Any and all submissions can be sent to this email (which I know is a different one than a few of you are used to).

As always I appreciate any efforts you can put forth and I completely understand if you’re busy with other things.

Scraping the intended “My Little Pony” themed newscast today. Saving that for The Tropecast coming out later this week. Rosscott, Alex Heberling, and Fes Works are here for this week’s Webcomic Beacon Newscast. Thanks to Eric Kimball, our newshound for collecting articles. Not all articles may have been gone over in detail, but they are all listed for you.

Ben Carver (Animation Aficionados) and Hal Hefner (Gates) join us as guests for this week’s Webcomic Beacon Newscast! Thanks to Eric Kimball, our newshound for collecting articles, for hosting this week. Alex and Rosscott are out. Not all articles may have been gone over in detail, but they are all listed for you.

We all have something, hidden in the darkest parts of our hearts… or closets. Something in which we would not even tell our best friends or closest family members about. Perhaps you drive to out of town stores to buy merchandise of your particular guilty pleasure!